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...lovely combinations until the last scene matches them up in their rightful (but still bizarre) combinations. This is all happening in Louisiana, remember. No matter how hard I remind myself that it's supposed to be un-serious music-hall theater, I can't help warning you that Bayou's book is (even for a Pudding Show, now) well... eccentric. I suspect some of the one-liners wouldn't make sense if they had footnotes...
Bewitched Bayou was dull, though, and unless Bill Strong can re-write his book and lyrics into some better kind of shape, it's going to be a long-running clinker of a musical. Pudding shows were never supposed to get too wound up in the intricacies of plot, but Bayou's is stretched so thin it snaps between a few of the scenes...
...response to criticism that the sham extra traded on the Crimson name, Thomas H. Parry '71, executive producer of "Bewitched Bayou," said yesterday, "We just wanted to be funny. It's too bad" if people thought it was genuine...
...hope that Liza Minnelli will say something outrageously shocking at our press conference so that we'll get a lot of publicity," Alfred Putnam '73, producer of "Bewitched Bayou" said yesterday...
After the parade and the presentation of the award, the cast of "Bewitched Bayou" will perform scenes from the musical for Minnelli and the public at the Pudding's theatre...